Subject: History

History

A mover and shaker in the Australian art world, Lisa Slade is the director of public programs at the Art Gallery of South Australia. She's is the driving force behind the 2016 Adelaide Biennial and she is also working on a project exploring a little known artform: objects made by Australian soldiers in the trenches during wartime.

Why would anyone want to spend their professional life with their head in a muddy trench, moving soil with a paintbrush? Or sweltering in a desert for months, with only a trowel to shift tons of moving sand?

Archaeologist Adam Ford, has spent much of his 25-year career working in such conditions on fascinating digs around the world.